autonomousau‧ton‧o‧mous /ɔːˈtɒnəməs $ ɒːˈtɑː-/ ●○○ adjective 
Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain.2 formal having the ability to work and make decisions by yourself without any help from anyone else SYN independent—autonomously adverb
WORD ORIGINautonomous
Origin:
1800-1900 Greek autonomos ‘independent’, from auto- ( ➔ AUTO-) + nomos ‘law’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- an autonomous region
- Andorra is autonomous, with its external affairs managed by both France and Spain.
- The councils, which are locally autonomous, act as courts for the whole area.
- An autonomous system would need to be able to respond rapidly.
- Because churches are autonomous, the denomination has no authority to limit the pulpit or deacon boards to men, he said.
- The love between man and wife, therefore, apparently presupposes man and wife treating one another as equal, autonomous beings.
- These powers will limit the extent to which men and women can be autonomous and equal in love-making.
Longman Language Activatornot controlled by or depending on another country or organization
· We must encourage independent governments, not economic satellites.independent from · The country became independent from France in 1964.· The country has three major network television stations, plus one independent station.
political freedom from control by the government of another country: · the American war of independence· the Vietnamese struggle for independence· There is a move to increase the independence of the judiciary.independence from: · Gradually schools gained a certain amount of independence from the Church.grant independence (to somebody): · The British granted independence to Ceylon in 1948.
not controlled by any other country - used especially in an official or political contexts: · It was a number of years before Canada was accepted by the world as a sovereign state.· The Hopi tribe asserted their rights as a sovereign nation.sovereign rights/power/status: · We fully recognize France's sovereign power in that area.
part of a country or organization that is autonomous is partly independent and has the right to organize most of its own activities, business etc: · Andorra is autonomous, with its external affairs managed by both France and Spain.· The councils, which are locally autonomous, act as courts for the whole area.
a part of a country or organization that is self-governing is controlled by the people who live or work there, as opposed to the larger country or organization that it belongs to: · The farmers are members of a small self-governing co-operative group.· The Orthodox Church is composed of 23 self-governing churches. · Many of the larger communities felt they would be better off if they were self-governing.
a country or part of a country that is self-sufficient produces all the food and other products that it needs: · The new technologies have made India agriculturally self-sufficient.· Many areas of the world still have self-sufficient rural economies.self-sufficient in: · France was self-sufficient in cereals, and exported its surplus.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
1an autonomous place or organization is free to govern or control itself SYN independentan autonomous region/state/republic etc Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain.· There is thus a connection between people's private fantasies and their status as autonomous individuals.· The company's hotels are run as autonomous units, and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent.· Not treating women as autonomous, in pornographic love-making, has the consequence of reinforcing women's subordination.· Modernism is seen not as autonomous, but as part of a wider culture.· For our present purpose, however, it is sufficient to note that he did not describe the physical world as autonomous.
· Each sub-committee is largely autonomous in its handling of a document which has been sifted to it.· In respect to day-to-day operations, teams would be largely autonomous.
· The state, for Fine and Harris, is more autonomous than in Soviet orthodoxy, although they remain instrumentalists.· You become, to that extent, a potentially more autonomous individual.· This leads to a more autonomous role for the Family Development Nurse and a greater input into decision and policy-making.
· The field of artistic production is, like other fields, relatively autonomous from the social field.· The purpose is to realise a specific set of values, through an emergent creative and relatively autonomous process.· Note here that Weber's religious field was also only relatively autonomous.· However, even this view of relatively autonomous, locally based development shares some of the same themes as those identified above.· The conjuncture of these two relatively autonomous processes, it was argued, has been central to the development of sports medicine.· Alternatively the state may be relatively autonomous of the capitalist mode of production, which is appropriate for a functionalist approach.
NOUN· The key element in the Basque Country was its autonomous government.
· Secondly, some forms of work design - autonomous group work in particular - appear to threaten traditional managerial decision-making prerogatives.· Management action involved a package of changes, necessary to support a considerable increase in worker control through autonomous groups.· Prior to the technical innovations by the Coal Board, miners had been used to working in small autonomous groups or teams.
· In energy terms, the goal of the autonomous house is to eliminate fossil-fuel use and the associated carbon dioxide emissions.· It is an autonomous house, not the autonomous house.· The temperature in the living room ofthe autonomous house was measured initially during the winter of1994-95.· Before investigating the design of the autonomous house it is worth asking why the authors elected to design a house.· Logically, an autonomous house can not use mains electricity.· The occupants of an autonomous house could not do this, because they would not have the resources to do so.· In the autonomous house, the user can not pass the buck.· No water Consumption figures could be found for the washing machine in the autonomous house.
· Internal control is presumably exerted not only by but for autonomous man.· The analysis leaves less and less for autonomous man to do.· Feelings are said to be part of the armamentarium of autonomous man, and some further comment is in order.· Non-punitive contingencies generate the same behavior, but a person remains for autonomous man to do and receive credit for inner virtues.· Traditional theories of autonomous man have exaggerated species differences.· A scientific conception seems demeaning because nothing is eventually left for which autonomous man can take credit.· But we have had to take advantage of a great deal of autonomous man.· It is only autonomous man who has reached a dead end.
· Congress delegates from South Ossetia and from the autonomous republic of Abkhazia boycotted the voting.· Tuva, under the Soviet system, was always an autonomous republic.· The Crimea had been an autonomous republic from 1921 to 1945.· Each autonomous republic is represented by eleven deputies in the Soviet of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet.· Gorbachev, Yanayev and the presidents of the autonomous republics were also members of the Federation Council.
· For the rest of the time the parties are basically loose amalgamations of autonomous state parties.
· The company's hotels are run as autonomous units, and their operations are only co-ordinated to a limited extent.· Distributor Miramax, which led the pack with 20 nominations, is an autonomous unit of the Walt Disney Co.· Decentralization into autonomous units will surely be even more critical than it is now.· During the same period, Eastman Kodak reorganized into seventeen small, autonomous units.· We were an autonomous unit, left well alone by the military hierarchy out there.· If they were not, they were inherited as autonomous units.
Galicia is an autonomous region of Spain.2 formal having the ability to work and make decisions by yourself without any help from anyone else SYN independent—autonomously adverb